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Finishing a PhD with a contract that is coming to an end.
Doing paperwork.
Being warned your e-mail will be suspended.
Looking for a postdoc.
Your environment asking you at least once a day "what will you do next?".
Oh, and getting some writing done, or so I try.🤯😵💫
"Don't have ideas, nor style.. That disturbs our subscribers".
Poignant and topical cartoon in the 1903 special edition on journalism in French satirical magazine 'L'Assiette au Beurre'.
📰L'Assiette au Beurre, 16 May 1903 (https://t.co/DDER7QBceJ)
Reading the Sir Francis Reginald Wingate Papers, digitized by @durham_uni, today.
Succeeding Lord Horatio Kitchener as Sirdar (commander) of the Egyptian Army and governor-general of Sudan, Wingate was no less than a late nineteenth-century imperial celebrity. 🎖️🇬🇧
Quizje, over welke vergeten Belgische kolonie schrijf ik vandaag? 🐘🇧🇪
@LDuerloo @AlexanderTurch2 The one with the arrows, Dutch Republic Lion?
Cairo sights day 35 and 36: writing about these guys: Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener; Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer; Sir Reginald Wingate [of Sudan]
Always thought (like me!) that the Great Pyramids of Egypt were built using ramp-systems like these that allowed to tow the blocks upwards into place?
A new theory says this interpretation is outdated and suggest a new one that includes a so-called 'tilt levering cage'.