Just saw this and remembered I have my ballot to do... getting it done rn, thank you for the reminder <3
Brava! Totally agree with all your points. I am at a weird crossroads of being professional services staff but academic too (PhD researcher). I am desperately trying to get full time hours in my PS role but there's no money so they University may end up losing me completely.
I wrote a piece for the CDBU blog with some low or no cost things our employers could do right now if they care about precarious staff as much as they say they do.
More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
It's my birthday today. If you can donate to this for @bookaidint.bsky.social i would be eternally grateful. If you can't donate, please share 🙏🏼♥️
Are you a PhD student interested in using museum collections in your research?
Our next free doctoral training webinar takes place next Wednesday. Join us for guidance and examples of uncovering marginalised and minoritised stories in collections.
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/doc...
#OTD 7 January 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women was published. This text was hugely influential and is regarded as one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. #WomensHistory #GenderHist
Thank you for all you do! 🥰
It's my birthday soon, and I am raising money for @bookaidint.bsky.social
They send books to libraries, schools, etc around the world, helping people access stories, education, & possibility.
If you’d like to help:
www.justgiving.com/page/erinsbi...
#BirthdayFundraiser #BooksChangeLives
🚨 ESSENTIAL INFORMATION KLAXON 🚨
Sussex County Asylum Christmas, 1871.
Service at 11, dinner at 1, a walk if weather allows, then evening entertainment and lights out at 11.15.
Small comforts, even in confinement.
#AsylumHistory #VictorianBritain #ArchiveFind #MedicalHumanities #HistoryOfMentalHealth #ChristmasPast #historian
Sussex County Asylum Christmas, 1871.
Service at 11, dinner at 1, a walk if weather allows, then evening entertainment and lights out at 11.15.
Small comforts, even in confinement.
#AsylumHistory #VictorianBritain #ArchiveFind #MedicalHumanities #HistoryOfMentalHealth #ChristmasPast #historian
I will be featured on the Sunday Programme on Radio 4 on Sunday 21 December, talking about the Winter Solstice. It will be live from around 7.10 am Sunday but also listenable on the Radio 4 website.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
I mean… Walton Goggins. Undisputed top tier of that whole celebrity group. 😍😍😍
Would be nice. Noneofyourbusinessitis could become rampant in the community, perhaps.
It's been over 5 years since Boris Johnson blocked me on Twitter for continually replying "dickhead" to each of his posts, so I should be okay. 🤞😇👍🙌
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who knew you'd find special door openers for pixies and tomtens on the NTTransit trains? Take note of the little sign at their eye level 😍
Happy travels tomtens and pixies! #Folklore
@deedeechainey.bsky.social
@folkloringpodcast.bsky.social @njtransit--nec.bsky.social
nm i see your email in your profile. sending now :)
Got it! DM me with an email address and I'll send it over
poop > kids
Some of the vaulted ceilings at Peterborough Cathedral still retain their medieval painted decoration…fictive masonry, or ashlaring, with a classic flower motif 😍
Oh how beautiful! 😍😍😍
Yes, full access from 1997, lemme know what you need
10/10 no notes
Waiting on feedback on final chapter by sup but... I think I have my first final draft done. OF THE WHOLE THESIS. I have intro, chapters, conclusion and all the rest of the shit done. Let the editing begin!
Holy shit you guys.
#phd #phdlife #historian #medicalhistory #skystorians
Pre ordered! <3
Isabelle Eberhardt 💕
(+October 21,1897 in Algeria
explorer,writer,Russian origin, traveled dressed as a man.
The first European to experience Sufism in the Maghreb and to bear witness to it in her writings,
"And yet, wandering is liberation, and life along the roads is freedom."
Written in the sand
Forthcoming in May 2026 @threeroomspress.bsky.social : "The Immortal Journeys of Isabelle Eberhardt" by Hédi A. Jaouad. This new biography of Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) will surely be of interest to many scholars in the field threeroomspress.com/the-immortal... #IsabelleEberhadt #biography
