Oooooh 😊

Amazing find! I had to pay about £100 for my copy! Well done!

A little more practice and I’m recreating the wilton diptych!

The hand of a legend grasps a paintbrush and paints blue hydrangeas using gouache tablets and a ceramic artists palette.

A rough sketch of blue hydrangeas. Gouache on board

Zoning out by sketching hydrangeas with gouache.

BASHAR MURAD - ITSAHELL! (LYRIC VIDEO) YouTube video by Bashar Murad

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This is PERFECTION

Leeds IMC 2026 Call for Papers: Things Transcending Time This session, sponsored by the Haskins Society and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research, University of Winchester, invites papers exploring objects and their relationships to, through, or against time. Things never have one life but many, through birth, interference, additions, and even abandonment. This session seeks to understand the many ways that objects transcend time through creating it, holding or shaping it. This session also wishes to challenge the dominating hierarchy of textual studies for history (as a time and place, rather than a discipline) through objects who themselves shape or create history. ‘Object’ is broadly conceived for this session; for example, a manuscript is also an object when the research is its life as an object rather than the textual understanding of it. Topics may include, but are certainly not limited to: • Multiple or concurrent times understood or embedded in objects • Objects’ authority and agency with and against time and history • Microhistories or biographies of objects and their place(s) in time. • Theoretical or methodological considerations of object-led histories Papers are warmly invited from any academic field (art history, archaeology, history, etc.), and should be generally focussed on the Anglo-Norman worlds and their surrounds (broadly interpreted), ca 800-1300. Papers presented by ECRs in this session may be submitted for consideration to the Denis Bethell Prize from the Haskins Society. Please send a 250-word abstract (including key terms) and short CV to Katherine Weikert (Katherine.weikert@winchester.ac.uk) by 15 September. Your subject line should read ‘Things Transcending Time [your surname]’, else it is liable to be missed and unread. If you have any questions, please contact Katherine Weikert.

#cfp #imc2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Please consider an abstract for 'Things Transcending Time,' sponsored by @haskinssociety.bsky.social and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research, @uniwinchester.bsky.social, and organized by myself. Abstract below with full text in the alt.

Visually illustrate funded PhD applications 😝😝😝😭

Early Modern name of the day: Ezeckiell Cakebread 🙌

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. 

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Martyr (demo) Keep moving on, through tempest sand through blessed storm I'll breath underwater I feel the fire I swallow stone hush now can you keep a secret? can you, can you keep a secret? hush now can you kee

The one good thing about disappointment is it fires up the ideas. It maybe time to get some new music out. Build on pre uni efforts.

“We Regret To Inform You That Your PhD Application Has Been Successful...” A Short Story On The Challenges Of Finding A PhD Scholarship - The PhD Place Dr Chris Thompson shares his experience of pursuing a PhD scholarship which was more challenging than doing a PhD itself. He talks about the emotional impact of rejection letters and the moments when ...

This blog describes the feeling perfectly 👌🏼

Not going to lie, the knockbacks do be knockbacking! Think it’s time to park the applications for further study and start the monograph.

Gonna start a magazine called "Too Niche" where I can publish all my rejected pitches....

EHRC guidance risks discrimination, says Museums Galleries Scotland - Museums Association Organisation responds to consultation on Code of Practice changes around sex and gender

News | EHRC guidance risks discrimination, says @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk

Organisation responds to consultation on Code of Practice changes around sex and gender

Today’s mood

I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.

Dirk (Theodorus) Helmbreker,
Studies of a Man Smoking and a Man Drinking about 1650–1660 (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)

Waiting for rejection. Existential crisis. Wondering if I should dye my hair? Is the grey off putting? I need a doughnut. Listing all my off putting qualities in my mind. 🥸 this picture is me.

The editors of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal invite submissions for the Fall 2026 / Volume 21.1 Forum on the topic of Early Modern Women and Migrancy. In keeping with the Journal’s tradition since its third issue (2008), this Forum will comprise short contributions on a single topic by scholars from a variety of disciplines. For Volume 21.1, we invite contributions on women’s experiences of migration and migrancy specifically (as opposed to other kinds of mobility) in the early modern world. We particularly encourage submissions that appeal to readers across disciplinary and national boundaries. Articles may cover literature, history, art history, history of science, geography, music, politics, religion, theater, cultural studies, and any region of the early modern world. At least part of our selection process will be focused on assuring geographical, chronological, and disciplinary diversity across the essays ultimately published in this Forum. Submissions are due October 15, 2025 and should be 3,500 words including footnotes; essays should follow the EMW Style Guide (www.journals.uchicago.edu/pb-assets/docs/journals/EMW-style-guide-CMOS18-1735857164913.pdf). Contributions will be peer-reviewed. If you have any questions about whether your proposed forum essay fits the scope of the journal, please contact us at emw@press.uchicago.edu. Please submit contributions at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/emw/about. See Submissions and Instructions for Authors. For article type, select Forum. For additional queries, please contact the editors at emw@press.uchicago.edu.

Here's our CFP for the Forum again, with ALT text

And yet here I am as someone you haven’t met, who remains inspired by your words. Have a biscuit, nap, and keep going! 🤓

Now I’m no michelin star chef, but I can tell this local cafe’s ciabatta is somewhat underwhelming

Is that a cheese single and a single slice of wafer thin ham?

15 July 1445: d. Joan Beaufort Queen of #Scots wife of James I King of Scots #otd at Dunbar Castle. She was regent of #Scotland from 1437-39.

This! Then this again!

Storage jar [albarello] for mostarda dated 1543, Italian Mostarda consists of candied fruit and mustard syrup.

(Met Museum)

Painted the mother’s shed and perimeter fence a delightful shade of Tudor black oak, then a re-edit of a dissertation chapter…. Time for a cuppa and a lie down.

Colleague bought me a carrot cake muffin. I’ll survive! 😝

Food Foodie GIF ALT: Food Foodie GIF

There is a difference between being peckish or hungry for an opportunity. My darlings, I am ravenous.

Also it might be dinner time

#foodmetaphors

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

A great Phd opportunity for a Black British student, starting this September. Spread the word!

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