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Serena Strecker
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Ph.D. Candidate, Late Medieval/Early Modern History, Yale. Early modern religious culture through exempla! Local 33. #digitalhumanities, #bookhistory, #earlymodernwomen. Reading, baking, Star Trek. she/her. Views mine.
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I usually think of stress dreams as involving things like forgotten exams or having to give a lecture on chemistry but last night’s was frankly more creative: putting an early printed book through the washing machine

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statement by UT Austin faculty, announcing a strike tomorrow in protest of the police presence on campus

Too long for alt text here's a summary: faculty members at UT Austin are condemning the university administration's decision to invite heavily armed city police and state troopers to the campus in response to a planned peaceful educational event by the Palestine Solidarity Committee. The event was meant to include teach-ins, study sessions, pizza, and an art workshop, with no threat of violence or disruption. The faculty members witnessed police using excessive force against students, including punching a female student, knocking over a legal observer, and violently arresting students for standing at the front of the crowd. They are calling for no business as usual on campus and are urging the community to gather at the main mall in front of UT Tower the following day.
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BREAKING: 1,000 Post-doc researchers at Princeton are forming a union and joining UAW

Pictured is a filing from the National Labor Relations Board website showing a petition for certification of a labor organization as the representative of a collective bargaining unit. The employer is Trustees of Princeton University doing business as Princeton University. There are 1000 employees in the proposed bargaining unit made up of All postdoctoral researchers who provide services to Princeton University, including Postdoctoral Research Associates, Postdoctoral Research Fellows, Associate Research Scholars, Associate Research Physicists, Senior Research Assistants, and Postgraduate Research Associates.
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From Daniel Schneider‘s Titius continuatus et illustratus (1669)

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The exemplum of my nightmares

Note printed in margin of 17th century book saying Student vergißt alles, which means Student forgets everything
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Genocide. "I stopped keeping track of how many new orphans I had operated on. After surgery they would be filed somewhere in the hospital, I’m unsure of who will take care of them or how they will survive." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Opinion: I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn't war — it was annihilation
Opinion: I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn't war — it was annihilation

As a surgeon, I volunteered at a Gaza hospital. The conditions were unthinkable. With a ground offensive in Rafah, people have nowhere to go.

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Haven’t posted in awhile—immersed in settling into Munich and getting into the swing of diss research! But I had to say I loved presenting on HTR for early modern German print at the Transkribus User Conference. Trying to resist the temptation to try every new method I learned at once!

Projector screen with title slide with the Wolpi mascot and Transkribus User Conference ‘24 The future of information extraction
Sandwich board welcoming Transkribus User Conference goers with a background of historical written and printed texts
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Thread 🧵 The following is a translation of Israeli activist Ariel Bernstein’s words on the passing of his friend Khalil Abu Yahia, who was killed in Gaza by an Israeli airstrike along with his wife and daughters. Shared with permission:

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Serena Strecker
@scstrecker.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate, Late Medieval/Early Modern History, Yale. Early modern religious culture through exempla! Local 33. #digitalhumanities, #bookhistory, #earlymodernwomen. Reading, baking, Star Trek. she/her. Views mine.
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