Book launch poster with book cover on the left. The red cover has a large black oval mirror framed by sci-fi and fantasy monsters, with yellow lettering in a stylized font with details that resemble whale-tails and bats’ wings. Title at the top: Humans: A Monstrous History. Along the bottom curve of the mirror: Surekha Davies. Center of banner are date, time, and names of presenters: Leah Redmond Chang, Surekha Davies, Ricardo Padrón, Caroline Dodds Pennock, Tamara J. Walker. Bottom of banner: Society for Renaissance Studies and its phoenix logo.

Virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY @ucpress.bsky.social, hosted by @srsrensoc.bsky.social! Weds Feb 19th 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 5:30pm GMT / 6:30pm CET.

Register now! Pub date Feb 4. 1/15

💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #HAMH

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Of course I mean *glue*. Just goes to show I have no *clue* what I’m doing 😆

A small soup bowl on a kitchen counter that is broken right down in the middle.

Happy New Year everyone!!

My first deed of the year was accidentally snapping a bowl right in half when I was stacking them to clean up. Hopefully this isn’t a sign…

(Does anyone know a good clue I can use? Is this fixable?)

How many of the people making this decision themselves benefited from state funding of their post-graduate education? (It just wouldn’t have been on my menu of possibilities if there wasn’t a full grant for fees and maintenance to apply for.)

Enzo Rossi and Uğur Atcay with a message.

#WOinActie
#StopDeBezuinigingen #EppoCiao

Dankjewel!!

Today 20.000+ people came together in The Hague to protest the proposed cuts in education funding. To protest against layoffs. Against a penalty for study delays. Against the closure of degree programmes. And to fight for academic freedom, equal opportunities, and the right to study. #WOinActie

When you don’t have time to make a sign from scratch (‘cause workload) and you want to be sustainable: recycle the poster #WOinActie #protest

Thanks!

I have created a starter pack for scholars of the long seventeenth century! I will be adding to it; do comment or message if you would like to be added - & share!

go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq

Thanks for putting this together! If there’s still space, could you add me please?

Just created a starter pack for people interested in early modern women! Somewhat random and definitely incomplete, so please suggest more people to add (including yourself) go.bsky.app/Cqqbspt

A thread of Historian Starter Packs to help find your communities.

First Pop Culture and Media:
bsky.app/profile/herm...

Thank you for creating another starter pack. I would love to be added, if possible.

And here comes mine:

go.bsky.app/9i1XbVC

Thank you for creating this! If there’s still space, could you add me please?

Given the X-odus (see what we did there? A true fire bird): which other #earlymodern centres have arrived here already?

We've got a starter pack for easy following, but keen to hear about more: go.bsky.app/LLzFj3b
#skystorians

I'm starting a pack for Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers working on any aspect of Historical Studies!

go.bsky.app/95yTEM3

With the twitter exodus: welcome, and here are some #earlymodern historians posting about early modern stuff (though I should update it now it’s more than 50 in those things) go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF

Thank you! (*waves* hi!)

What a wonderful idea, thank you! If there’s still space, could you add me?

The cover of the book ‘365 Poems for Life’ compiled by Allie Esiri.

The blurb of the book ‘365 Poems for Life’: Discover 365 Poems for Life, an uplifting poem-a-day collection from award-winning curator Allie Esiri. This anthology offers readers an escape from daily life through some of the best words in the English language. Explore a wide range of poets, including Maya Angelou, Carol Ann Duffy, Kae Tempest, Dylan Thomas, Ocean Vuong and many more. The perfect gift, this beautiful collection brings a moment of solace every day of the year.

My birthday present to myself arrived (very) early. This collection has a poem for every day of year. A wonderful way to (re)discover poets.

This coming year will likely be one of insecurity, instability, and big decisions for me. But at least I can be sure of one thing: there will be poetry.

A student gave me a card with a wax seal on the envelope. Day made!

So disappointed in the Dutch election results…

Just witnessed the rarest of phenomena: a train that leaves too early.

Because of a Big Deadline, I put off a bunch of stuff thinking “that’s November-me’s problem”. November-me is not amused…

Thank you for the welcome, Chris!