My Favourite Tweets of 2019

With New Years coming in fast, I thought I'd do something I haven't done in a while: compile some of my favourite tweets I've composed in the past year. Hopefully this will encourage more people to follow me in the coming new year over at https://twitter.com/josgagne. Without further ado:

Quand ton collègue relis ton texte et souligne que tu as accidentellement écrit que #Bougainville était sanglant au lieu de cinglant... #FrenchColonial #18thCentury #NouvelleFrance #Vampire pic.twitter.com/fXbVyolv1S

— Joseph Gagné ⚜️🎄❄⛄⛷🎀 (@josgagne) December 10, 2019

It's moments like these I suspect there's a particular unspoken reason the ſ, or astrid S (long S), disappeared from typography... #AstridS #typography #18thcentury #goatsucker #bats #birds #buffon #carolina #vastearlyamerica #frenchcolonial #dirtymind #accidentalvulgarity pic.twitter.com/GoBaVqbMeT

— Joseph Gagné ⚜️🎄❄⛄⛷🎀 (@josgagne) November 3, 2019

Feeling batty tonight with Halloween nearing. How about a nice #18thcentury #engraving? Here's a #bat and a #cat by Parisian engraver Claude Gillot in 1719.

Source: https://t.co/LpoYmzjfng#academicswithcats pic.twitter.com/JZtg0chkks

— Joseph Gagné ⚜️🎄❄⛄⛷🎀 (@josgagne) October 26, 2019

1/I’m nearing the end of my PhD (hopefully by April). I’ve often had the pleasure of having new grad students ask me for writing tips and hints. I figured I would share some of my observations with #academicchatter #youshouldbewriting pic.twitter.com/SqRwWlIcvL

— Joseph Gagné ⚜️🎄❄⛄⛷🎀 (@josgagne) October 25, 2019

I'm always on the lookout for #18thcentury visuals of #Indigenous people. I knew most of the Townsend sketches, but not this AMAZING one: "Indian in his war dress and blanket" National Portrait Gallery, London. https://t.co/xmwJGjJNsg pic.twitter.com/PfTrfP8ebZ

— Joseph Gagné ⚜️🎄❄⛄⛷🎀 (@josgagne) October 1, 2019

I admit, I'm a massive nerd: just bought a key chain of #HocusPocus's #BillyButcherson. I get to have my very own #colonial #zombie this #Halloween!

And oh man, shout out to @actordougjones for this memorable role! pic.twitter.com/Qsl8X4jyRl

— Joseph Gagné ⚜️🎄❄⛄⛷🎀 (@josgagne) September 16, 2019

Oui, je suis immature, et je m'assume.
Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues. 1611#17thcentury #dictionnaire #dictionary #anglaisfrançais #fart #pet #traduction #translation #bilinguisme #bilingualism pic.twitter.com/fiwTbI3QG3

— Joseph Gagné ⚜️🎄❄⛄⛷🎀 (@josgagne) September 6, 2019

Un grand merci aux Rendez-vous d'histoire de Québec. Ce fut un honneur de parler de la #7YearsWar en compagnie de mon directeur Alain Laberge, et mes collègues Louise Lainesse, Michel Thévenin, Louis Lalancette et bien sûr, Dave Noël. #FrenchColonial #NouvelleFrance pic.twitter.com/ksCUTtSiGp

— Joseph Gagné ⚜️🎄❄⛄⛷🎀 (@josgagne) August 19, 2019

Working with a colleague on illustrating #duels in the #18thcentury. I had a bit of fun... pic.twitter.com/E9sa7zYckP

— Joseph Gagné ⚜️🎄❄⛄⛷🎀 (@josgagne) July 9, 2019

There's nothing like working on my dissertation on the #7YearsWar on the #PlainsofAbraham in #Quebec early on a beautiful morning. The sun is warming up the forgotten ghosts of the battle of Quebec and spring brings to life another year since the event. pic.twitter.com/AXm94vdzUd

— Joseph Gagné ⚜️🎄❄⛄⛷🎀 (@josgagne) June 10, 2019

#FossilFriday In 1739 Baron de Longueuil was en route to counter the Chickasaw uprising in Louisiana when his Indigenous allies stumbled on "elephant bones" at what is now Big Bone Lick, Kentucky. They became the type specimen used to first describe the mastodon. #18thcentury pic.twitter.com/G89IkbbOlx

— Joseph Gagné ⚜️🎄❄⛄⛷🎀 (@josgagne) May 31, 2019

Is it Friday yet? #academicswithcats pic.twitter.com/ycSzRoJ0n9

— Joseph Gagné ⚜️🎄❄⛄⛷🎀 (@josgagne) March 29, 2019

"Whatcha writing about?"
"Oh, you know, how the French thought two non-existent ginormous islands existed on Lake Superior". #Whoopsie #Cartography #18thCentury #7YearsWar pic.twitter.com/r86J7mCERU

— Joseph Gagné ⚜️🎄❄⛄⛷🎀 (@josgagne) March 21, 2019

I need a beer. #youshouldbewriting pic.twitter.com/jpm2B9tI6i

— Joseph Gagné ⚜️🎄❄⛄⛷🎀 (@josgagne) March 1, 2019

When you're an #18thCentury #Historian and you message a friend forgetting to clue them into your research on spying in brothels... #ResearchFail pic.twitter.com/QugPWrF5do

— Joseph Gagné ⚜️🎄❄⛄⛷🎀 (@josgagne) February 5, 2019

I feel this is what #archaeologists should say all the time. https://t.co/4pmbfNMPTZ

— Joseph Gagné ⚜️🎄❄⛄⛷🎀 (@josgagne) January 29, 2019

"Not to be alarmist, but your book pile is now taller than me..."#academicswithcats pic.twitter.com/4hz15yq8Jg

— Joseph Gagné ⚜️🎄❄⛄⛷🎀 (@josgagne) January 27, 2019