My article —“Are You Here?”: Medical Education and Poetry in Jane Barker’s Galesia Trilogy — is published today! If you’re into early modern English women’s writing or history of medicine, click on the link below (I have 50 free eprints) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
GTFO. This is insane. @muellershewrote.com @hcrichardson.bsky.social @meidastouch.com @meiselasb.bsky.social @murray.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov @thebulwark.com @apnews.com
A good piece on men’s hockey and privilege in the US. thehumanityarchive.substack.com/p/the-room?u...
I’m full of admiration this week for the good people of Minneapolis, for their care for each other and their ability to organize. Power to the people.
She was a poet and a mother and kind. “We had whistles. They had guns.” A statement from Renee Good’s wife.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
@marcavsociety.bsky.social
Are you an early modernist? Is submitting a proposal to the Margaret Cavendish Society on your schedule for this week? It should be! Come to UNB in beautiful Fredericton in June.
www.unb.ca/fredericton/...
Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
I love the BL and its treasures, so this is sad to see: chronic underfunding, underpaid library workers, poor corporate leadership and no head librarian. Fair wages for librarians and library workers! www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
The deadline is coming in January. Send in your proposal for papers on Margaret Cavendish and politics—including that of gender and sexuality, war, colonialism, race, or the natural world (and more). Hope to see you in beautiful Fredericton in June.
URGENT: Nema still needs $150 to reach her goal, PLEASE PLEASE share this and give if you can.
Maxime Blanchette-Joncas: I'm tabling the following motion: That the committee request the three funding councils, namely the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), as part of the study on the impact of federal funding allocation criteria on research excellence in Canada, to provide it with the disaggregated data of all submitted applications, whether funded or not, for all student and faculty funding programs from the master's level onwards for applications made between 2020 and 2025. That this data include (1) demographic data of applicants and collaborators, including applicants' responses to the equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) questionnaire, (2) the institutions and departments of applicants, including the institutions of collaboration, (3) the language of the application, (4) all data regarding the type of application and project content (application year, grant program, discipline, title, summary, amount requested by the applicant), as well as (5) the identity of the evaluation committee, comments, opinions, scores assigned to applications for each criterion, and (6) the outcome of the application and the amount awarded. That the three funding councils submit all this data to the committee within 15 days following the adoption of this motion, in an Excel spreadsheet format.
The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
@shanaboudreau.bsky.social made another recipe from the Early Modern Maritime Recipes database—this time a plumb cake using yeast from beer. Spoiler alert: it finally worked!
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Join us in Fredericton in June 2026 to discuss Margaret Cavendish and politics.
Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City.
"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."
It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...
More evidence that the US is a threat to Canada’s borders and people
Fredericton Youtuber Shana Boudreau is making some of the pre-1800 recipes in our Early Modern Maritime Recipes Database. In Shana’s first video she makes a Plumb Cake recipe from the Almon papers (Loyalist Halifax doctor & family). Follow her for more to come from EMMR! youtu.be/K9K0cRCZ-NQ?...
You may remember our discovery of the library of early modern book owner Katherine Blount. Today, in a must-read post, @tarallyons.bsky.social uncovers a library of books belonging to her daughter! earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/j... #HerBook #EarlyModern
