Xinyi Wen (she/they)
👩🏻💻 Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social
🎓 PhD @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust
📍 Travelling through possible worlds
🖋️ Writing a reversed long history of the doctrine of signatures
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- I’m thrilled to announce that from September I’ll be joining @warburginstitute.bsky.social as a Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow. It’s a position I’ve aspired to since 2019, when I studied Warburg for an MPhil essay. Can’t wait to meet such an exciting group of scholars!
- (Seems like a good time to share my Warburg obsession: muse.jhu.edu/article/926151 #EarlyModern #HistSci #HistMed #ArtHistory 🗃️
- More and more friends and colleagues are joining, so I quickly made a little starter pack. For those ‘Didn’t know you’re here too!’ occasions. Please suggest more! #HistSci #HistMed 🗃️ #EarlyModern #c18 #c19 go.bsky.app/S7TEGpqat://did:plc:rys7xbx56rzeaf3n2zefubsr/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lm5cermgqr2q
- Enjoyed all the milk and mould in this article (as well as the nod of the ‘doctrine of signatures’) Follow our @extispex.bsky.social for more! 🗃️ #EarlyModern #HistSci #HistMed
- oh, @extispex.bsky.social, you're here!! Excellent! Excuse to swoon again over how utterly brilliant your "Work, Gender and Witchcraft in #EarlyModern England" article is! #HistGender #SkyStorians
- When was the last time you hear Darwin say ‘I hate myself’? Well here you are!
- In a series of striking episodes from nineteenth-century botanists' and naturalists' studies of insect polination, Christoffer Eriksen (@cberiksen.bsky.social) shows how ecological thinking developed in Enlightenment-era greenhouses and gardens.
- This is so cool. Didn’t know that one could use Comenius this way!
- Let's enjoy a look into book shops of the past. This is a 🧵 especially for #skystorians of #earlymodern Europe, and for #bookhistory, #booksky and #paperhistory nerds 🗃️ Expect, among other bookish stuff, lots of #backwardsbooks, and boxes with paper sheets, and a few sleeping dogs. 1/
- #BookHistory: Delighted to be awarded the renowned Katharine F Pantzer Jr Scholarship of @bibsoc.bsky.social! The grant will support me in finding and studying #EarlyModern extra-illustrated books of natural history, like this Petiver’s book @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @camglamresearch.bsky.social.📜
- Many thanks to the Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social, @acgwhite.bsky.social, and other members of the committee ❤️
- Just realised that our amazing Whipple Museum of History of Science is on Bluesky. Follow @whipplemuseum.bsky.social for more #HistSci, #HistMed, #SciArt, broken scientific instruments in Cambridge, and more! 📜 🗃️
- And now the plaque is here too! As I continue to uncover women naturalists in Cambridge archives, getting this desktop reminder becomes even more inspiring. To read more about our article, see the thread below👇 🗃️ #HistSci #EarlyModern #C18th #WomenInSTEM
- Last week, when the BJHS article by @cberiksen.bsky.social and I received the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize at HSS Mérida, I wrote a 🧵 on X sharing our research process. Now I'll redo it on BlueSky, this time with more images of our archival sources: 🗃️ #HistSci #EarlyModern
- Friends #skystorians 🗃️, follow Luis for more amazing content on the weird and fascinating ‘occult’ sciences in modern China! #Histsci #Histmed
- Christmas #food time 🍜 クリスマスに作った食べ物： 1. 竹輪と豚肉と七面鳥の鍋 2. 鍋の残りの材料で作ったカレー 3. 中華風のエビ玉 4. 「舞妓さんちのまかないさん」風のなす料理。(味噌あったっけ？) #青空ごはん部
- When you open an old notebook in the archive and there is a snake (skin): @theulspeccoll.bsky.social 🗃️💙📚
- Delighted that my paper in the Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social, “When Jupiter Meets Saturn: Aby Warburg, Karl Sudhoff, and Astrological Medicine in the Age of Disenchantment,” is featured in Contingent Magazine’s list. #EarlyModern #HistSci #ArtHistory 🗃️ doi.org/10.1353/jhi....
- Always enjoy #EarlyModern textile #bookbinding. Here is a much cheaper & plain one from my personal collection: a ca.1723 #astrology manual in worn, stained coarse linen cloth, filled with charts and notes on how to use stars to guide daily lives. Detached, but in one piece. #HistSci #SkyStorians 🗃️
- Just finished my #PhD intro after struggling. Best advice I received: Grasp the excitement when you started this project. Maybe take a break from the labour, reconnect with your passion, be a bit bolder and imaginative, before delving into the details. That saved me. #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky
- Newcomer alert #SkyStorians! Follow the amazing @laurenkassell.bsky.social if you wanna hear more about #earlymodern stars, lives, casebooks, getting sick, living longer, Simon Forman, Richard Napier, Rufus the dog, weird medicine like pigeon slippers, making astrology into a video game, and more! 🗃️
