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Alexandre Simon-Ekeland

@asimonekeland.bsky.social

Academic librarian at the University of Oslo and historian of exploration in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly interested in the polar regions, the history of celebrity and the history of emotions

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Four line charts showing the same words -- 'she said' plotted in four different corpora on the google ngrams viewer. The words are much less common in the 2019 and most recent version through the 20th century, and spike up sharply after 2000.

Four line charts showing the same words -- 'she said' plotted in four different corpora on the google ngrams viewer. The words are much less common in the 2019 and most recent version through the 20th century, and spike up sharply after 2000.

Google quietly updated their ngrams viewer again this year. The books used appear to be extremely different yet again--the rate of the words "she said" are about 60% what they were in the 20th century compared to the 2019 release, and just 20% compared to 2009. But there's a catch:

11.12.2024 02:20 — 👍 217    🔁 80    💬 5    📌 17
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Call for Abstracts - ‘Epistemic Frontiers’? Geoscientific Knowledge, Authority, and Politics of Participation in Arctic and African Exploration - Department of Archaeology, Conservation and H... Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

Call for Abstracts - ‘Epistemic Frontiers’? Geoscientific Knowledge, Authority, and Politics of Participation in Arctic and African Exploration - Oslo, 22–24th April 2025: www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english... #histsci

02.12.2024 08:34 — 👍 50    🔁 31    💬 1    📌 3

(not Markham's choice of title...). Cornelia Lüdecke mentions briefly the tensions about the Scott expedition in a chapter, in a book about Otto Nordenskjold called Antarctic Challenges

17.11.2024 19:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's more of a source, but: Antarctic Obsession by Clements Markham (1986)

17.11.2024 19:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
Whales as a Nordic speciality: Collecting cetaceans for Natural History Museums (1860s–1910s) | Nordisk Museologi

How did the natural history museums in Paris, Bergen and Copenhagen build their whale collections 1860s-1910s? New publication lead by @asimonekeland.bsky.social in Nordic museology🥳🧪🐳 journals.uio.no/museolog/art...

09.07.2024 11:08 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Delcampe is also very nice for buying French stuff (www.delcampe.net/en_GB/collec...). It's usually a bit cheaper than eBay - I bought many early C20 explorer collectible cards this way

10.04.2024 16:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Poster for Games and Environmental History event.

Poster for Games and Environmental History event.

Next Friday, 12 January 2024, I discuss Games and Environmental History with @scoutblum.bsky.social in the ASEH Connects series. While based in environmental history, the boardgames crowd is more than welcome! Zoom link in poster. #envhist #envhum

07.01.2024 10:31 — 👍 22    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 0

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