Medievalist | Environmental History Series Editor at the Trivent | Kung-fu fighter | Pole dancerhttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3mrl4t3dtrs2mI have been neglecting my academic social media, but here is some news that my podcast on my most recent obsession - St Christopher Cynocephauls - is out (has been out for a while) [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Jul 2026 19:34 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrl4t3dtrs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3mckeib6im222Really enjoyed chatting about medieval zombies on the Resurrectionists podcast. What a productive week I'm having! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyd-g2-qcHc16 Jan 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mckeib6im222https://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3mcfgc3vqy22fI'm in this picture and I like it! My article ‘The Legend of the Serra Revisited: Identifying the Composite Creature’ has just been published with Preternature. Big thank you to the editors for their hard work 🦭 [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Jan 2026 15:50 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcfgc3vqy22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3ma2jv2jzic2dIn 2022 my amazing colleague Emelie and I went on a trip to Östersund to see the Nordic Myths exhibition at Nationalmuseum Jamtli. We then wrote an article, which later grew into two articles. Super happy to see Part 1 published today, check it out, there are pictures! https://kb.osu.edu/items/8e0974dc-8fdf-4cb4-a898-4b55d75b56e815 Dec 2025 21:04 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma2jv2jzic2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3m56u6kvsws2vBinged One Piece up to the ongoing episodes, what a time to be alive!09 Nov 2025 10:04 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3m56u6kvsws2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3m3uasm6lw22eMy colleague and I are launching a new podcast series called Memory and Nature. If you are a researcher in environmental humanities, we will probably want to interview you! To express interest, send us an abstract by 1 February 2026. See the cfp for details ⬇️23 Oct 2025 11:25 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3uasm6lw22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3m2kgkmtgus22When people say that German or any other language is romantic, Dr. Daruwalla thought, all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language (c) John Irving, 'A Son of the Circus'06 Oct 2025 20:16 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2kgkmtgus22https://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3lz2kfqd5mc2dWatched Puss in Boots 2 bc a friend of a friend said it's the best animated film ever. Well, Puss meets the personification of death and reassesses his life by making meaningful connections w/ others. In other words, very Irvin Yalom-y17 Sep 2025 19:17 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz2kfqd5mc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3lyx5hlgppc2nTell me this job was created for a friend w/o telling me this job was created for a friend16 Sep 2025 10:48 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyx5hlgppc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3lyt5cflbcc24Finished Wednesday's 2nd season. Why does a late-autumn motorcycle road trip with Uncle Fester suddenly look so good?14 Sep 2025 20:34 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyt5cflbcc24https://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3lykwwxas2c2pCome to my seminar on sea monsters on Monday at Stockholm University! (It will be in English 😉) https://www.su.se/centrum-for-medeltidsstudier/kalender/medeltidsseminariet-polina-ignatova-institutionen-f%C3%B6r-kultur-och-samh%C3%A4lle-link%C3%B6pings-universitet-1.83894911 Sep 2025 14:19 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lykwwxas2c2phttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3lxyskaidm22vЛюбимые формулировки из Гулистана Саади (перевод Рустама Алиева): Однажды ночью, о минувших годах размышляя и даром погубленную жизнь в памяти оживляя, камни дома сердца своего я подтачивал алмазами слёз04 Sep 2025 09:12 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxyskaidm22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3lwqpgm2k7c23Environmental medievalists, we want to see you at the animal sessions at the IMC 2026! Please submit your abstracts by 10 September 🦔 @imc-leeds.bsky.social @leedsims.bsky.social19 Aug 2025 10:30 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwqpgm2k7c23https://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3lui42w4ic22a1st day back from my conference Eurotrip - @imc-leeds.bsky.social (where we've plotted forthcoming sessions w/ Medieval Animal Data-Network) and @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social in Prague (where I've tried out medieval studies from the memory perspective). Now let's catch up on this pile of emails21 Jul 2025 13:32 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lui42w4ic22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3ltcmbvtc4s2jTravelling to the UK w/ a visa (duh). SAS puts me on the spot by calling me together w/ several other holders of uncool passports to their desk through the fucking intercom. This is besides the fact I can't check in online bс again my passport is uncool.06 Jul 2025 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltcmbvtc4s2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3lrv3klcihs2hPublications are like buses... My article on representations of fish in medieval children's literature has just come out and it's in OA: https://ecp.ep.liu.se/index.php/harchil/article/view/116618 Jun 2025 13:12 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrv3klcihs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3lqn4i2oujc2nI struggle a lot with American English I realise02 Jun 2025 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqn4i2oujc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3lqd2zor4b22tToday I have sent out two documents: a publishing agreement for my article and a presentation pic for a pole dancing competition 🤘29 May 2025 15:49 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqd2zor4b22thttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3lq2rwqgrp22jPrioritising AI over - well - natural intelligence is a perfect example of how ✨some people✨ want to see humans as expendable materials. I said what I said.26 May 2025 08:45 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lq2rwqgrp22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3lpyerfhxq22rThat moment in a romcom when an ugly girl shows up in her prom dress #akademiskahögtiden #Sweden25 May 2025 09:44 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpyerfhxq22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3lplphypssc2gLove that autocorrect tries to replace godkänd with goddamn20 May 2025 08:51 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lplphypssc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3lnftalwtf225Did you know that university employees also have human rights? Follow SULF/LiU to find out more! eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Fsulf-liu%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cpolina.ignatova%40liu.se%7C7e0688797cb64558adaf08dd81a2493c%7C913f18ec7f264c5fa816784fe9a58edd%7C0%7C0%7C638809256192387178%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=HLn64IEq%2F0AHSCZSwAuTDFLOZrY7rHi0zlypgkERYUk%3D&reserved=022 Apr 2025 13:52 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnftalwtf225https://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3lndh65i4ak2pI'm so sorry21 Apr 2025 15:11 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lndh65i4ak2phttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3llqao3jkvk23My amazing colleague Emelie Fälton and I wrote a chapter on sea monsters and environmentalism. It was published in the open access yesterday, have a look! https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781032719214/framing-sustainability-language-communication-maida-kosatica-sean-smith01 Apr 2025 06:29 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3llqao3jkvk23https://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3liyxs6xozk22Writing a Black Death lecture fighting the temptation to say 'this is yersinia pestis, it might be small but it's got big plans'25 Feb 2025 13:28 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3liyxs6xozk22https://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3lii6aoy2s22wSpotify needs to introduce a repeat mode, but like THE SONG - some different song - THE SONG again- another different song and so on so I can avoid complete degradation18 Feb 2025 21:09 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lii6aoy2s22whttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3lhvijovvd22uDo you think one can regress from Purgatory i.e. go to Hell instead of Heaven? Like by behaving particularly badly?11 Feb 2025 10:52 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhvijovvd22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3lhltqzt6ns2uAlbertus Magnus on salpa: according to Pliny the salpa is an obscene, vile, marine fish. It can in no way be cooked unless it is first beaten very forcefully and broken down with a club or stick. What did salpa ever do to Albert?07 Feb 2025 14:46 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhltqzt6ns2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/drpolina.bsky.social/post/3lhivvgjids2kJohn Arderne's scroll (National Library of Sweden X118) contains first-aid advice on what to do if you have a spear stuck in your bum06 Feb 2025 10:47 +0000at://did:plc:jxaubkg53ikmqynihps2oboj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhivvgjids2k