The ever-excellent John Harris on navigation in the smartphone age (drawing on @jerrybrotton.bsky.social's wonderful cultural history of the compass)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
🗺️ Fascinating article & podcast featuring @jerrybrotton.bsky.social and photographer Michael Yamashita exploring Fra Mauro's world map of c. 1459 based on Marco Polo's Book of Marvels.
🗃️ #medievalsky #renaissance #history #podcast
oculi-mundi.com/michael-yama...
I mean, HELLO? So Oxbridge has several dozen applicants for every position. Well, guess what, SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE, BECAUSE THERE’S HARDLY ANY JOBS GOING.
So happy to be speaking at the wonderful Seaport Museum @seaportsouth.bsky.social
southstreetseaportmuseum.org/compass/
So happy to be talking maps tomorrow at the Newberry Library in Chicago!
www.chicagomapsociety.org/upcoming-eve...
Yep. Every track. Currently in NYC living every one.
What do you call humans being kidnapped and sent to another country to be imprisoned in shackles and forced to perform intense physical labor while living in horrid conditions under the threat of daily physical violence and rape?
Open a history book. You can do it. I believe in you.
What autocratic rulers demand from academics: we have been here before.
www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Instead of slashing welfare and disability benefits — forcing more disabled people and children into poverty — the government could introduce a 2% tax on assets over £10 million.
It would raise £24 billion — five times the savings from these cuts.
This is austerity 2.0
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/03...
New York City Views from the @empirestatebldng.bsky.social last night ❤️ #ESB
Lord Salisbury used to warn against politicians using maps: 'A great deal of misunderstanding is caused by speakers having made use of maps drawn up on a small scale'.
Cracking the Magafacists code
Trump (idiotically) objects to maps w "artificial lines drawn through them."
Bad news for 49 US states plus DC. All except Hawaii (plus other islands) have straight-lines as some part of their border.
And spare a thought for Colorado and Wyoming!
Bonus: would you hire someone who said this?
I’m 55 and it still kills me 🤣
I'm guessing that many research institutions outside the U.S. will recruit talented scientists currently based in the U.S.
Is anyone aware of organized recruitment efforts? The only one I've seen was this one from a French university.
www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...
Hooray! Say hello from me 😘
Never a close reader my dear 🙊🤣
The greater surprise is your knowledge of the taste of said blue cakes in men’s urinals… 😮
lithub.com/a-columbia-p...
Very excited to be talking at the Newberry Library in Chicago, a dream since starting a PhD on maps over thirty years ago!
www.newberry.org/calendar/fou... for Renaissance Studies
Goodness! Thank you
