Dr Lieske Huits

University Lecturer in History of Design and Material Culture at Leiden
(she/her)

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Delighted to say that yesterday, I passed my PhD viva (with no corrections!!), on A New Narrative of the Use of Historical Styles in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Many thanks to my examiners, Mari Hvattum and @william_whyte, and my supervisors Caroline van Eck and @HorsfallTurner.

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@Hosmeriana I'm gonna try and pack in a second viewing before i come to the UK on Friday but chances are slim i succeeded so pray for me

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Ludwig Göransson, I have one thing to say to you

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Hey queen. Girl, you have done it again, constantly raising the bar for us all. And doing it flawlessly.

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@Hosmeriana HOW DID HE MANAGE TO PACK SO MUCH SOUND INTO THESE TRACKS?

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The Odyssey (2026)

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Immersion-maxing today by taking the ferry to go see The Odyssey in 70MM

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@Hosmeriana CLONE HIM

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New in The Atlantic this morning: an extraordinary cover story by @rosehorowitch.

If you’re generally only reading tweets, emails, texts, and machine-generated sentences, you should really, really read this story (and after that, a novel!):

https://t.co/izCxIr0MW2

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Nice

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On my way to see some Turner paintings... this must be what John Ruskin felt like

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On my way to see some Turner paintings... this must be what John Ruskin felt like

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God, I love food writing

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A story about following your dreams even if they’re stupid, and believing in yourself, even if you’re stupid (which would explain the quality of the dreams): https://t.co/lQzbox1JTF

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I present you all with a conversation in had TWO (2) days ago

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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump posts image portraying himself as Jesus Christ.

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It’s okay for hard things to be hard. On the subject of AI and writing, I like the way George Saunders puts it:

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@Hosmeriana Lobster-scarecrow Melissa

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@cjfaraday Yay! So exciting! 🥳

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Swifties, here's some relevant Proust for us

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We waste precious time on absurd clues and pass by the truth without suspecting it.

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“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”

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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.