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Het is opmerkelijk dat in een wereld waar extreemrechts en fascisme steeds groter worden een cordon sanitaire wordt opgetrokken tegen *checks notes* een milquetoast links-progressieve politieke partij als GroenLinks-PvdA. #pauwendewit

It’s like someone fed ChatGPT ketamine

Vanaf mei 2026 is Sven Dupré de nieuwe decaan van onze faculteit. Van harte gefeliciteerd @svendupre.bsky.social en we kijken uit naar een mooie samenwerking! www.uva.nl/content/nieu...

Oh, even just for the comments below 🍿

Tijd om bestuurskunde en bedrijfskunde af te schaffen dan

Extensive and detailed investigation about russian drone intrusion into Germany and Netherlands. The full scope might supprise you, including civilian lead counter drone operation www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...

@sah1365.bsky.social commemorates Frank Gehry's passing with a round-up of tributes to the architect. sah.org/2025/12/10/o...

This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.

"Art history gives you tools to interpret the visual world and makes you more of a critical viewer of political messages, advertising and a barrage of social media images. It’s dangerous if you can’t examine these things critically". apollo-magazine.com/art-history-...

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

🇸🇪🏆🇭🇺 Hungary’s László Krasznahorkai received the Nobel Prize in Literature today in Stockholm from King Carl XVI Gustaf — a historic moment honoring the master of dark, mesmerically unfolding epics and a landmark day for Hungarian literature.

The mass deportation of undocumented people was one of Hitler’s largest coercive policies before the war. This set off a chain of events which can give us a useful perspective on where we are now. snyder.substack.com/p/self-terro...

Action group 0.7: ‘To @d66.nl, if you break your promise to retract the budget cuts, you will lose the votes of students and academics forever.’

Rosalía tickets in the pocket! Yay

Het is opmerkelijk dat in een wereld waar extreemrechts en fascisme steeds groter worden een cordon sanitaire wordt opgetrokken tegen *checks notes* een milquetoast links-progressieve politieke partij als GroenLinks-PvdA. #pauwendewit

CFP alert! I am co-editing an upcoming NKJ volume on The Artist's Biography. A super exciting and timely topic! Want to contribute? The CFP is now online, deadline for abstracts is January 20, 2026. Find the CFP here, under downloads: brill.com/display/seri... Questions? Feel free to reach out!

Dus een kliek van rijke zakenlieden weet via een bevriende NRC-journalist een onwelgevallige informateur die openstond voor regeringsdeelname van PvdA/GL tot aftreden te dwingen zodat de weg vrijkomt voor de eigen voorkeursvariant van een minderheidskabinet. Vat ik het zo goed samen?

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Happy Bernini's birthday to all who celebrate! 🎂 #OTD 7 December 1598 #earlymodern #baroque #art #architecture

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

Legendary architect Frank Gehry dead aged 96 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just paid the last installment of my student loan. Yay!

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

🇳🇱 BREAKING: Netherlands withdraws from #Eurovision 2026, following the results of the EBU General Assembly today.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

The bigger question about IoT is whether it's going back to live broadcast, once again the radio equivalent of an undergrad history exam for its contributors

Hey, #Tallinn! I'm here for the Michel Sittow conference and, I'm delighted to be presenting a keynote tomorrow on "Cultural Dynamics across Europe at the Time of Michel Sittow: Implications for Art History Research": www.artun.ee/en/calendar/... #arthistory #medievalsky #earlymodern #skystorians

Job announcement: part time, fixed term contract for a research assistant for a global Renaissance exhibition @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social Suitable for advanced doctoral candidates/early career applicants #earlymodern #16thcentury history.web.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/ra...

Just published! I am so glad to see this in print after more than five years in the making. The Invention of Scientific Conservation @degruyterbrill.bsky.social , edited by Esther van Duijn @rijksmuseum.bsky.social and myself @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social brill.com/display/titl...

We’ll be back - at 09.02 on 15th January 2026 - with Misha Glenny! www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

The winner of the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 is… Hannah Durkin for 'Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade'. @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social A big congratulations to Hannah!

Misschien een beetje van die extra investeringsruumte inzetten op onderwijs? Betaalt zich terug en maakt je weerbarstig in een steeds guurdere wereld. www.bnr.nl/nieuws/nieuw...

Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

So excited about tomorrow when I get to lecture about Grünewald's Isenheim altarpiece (1512-1516), now in Musée d'Unterlinden in Colmar. #renaissance

A very interesting thread

@psupress.bsky.social Is the holiday sale also available for people overseas? Because if I try to insert HOL25 coupon code at Wiley, it doesn't work. Would be great if it did

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Drying hotspots are emerging across the Middle East, Asia, South America, along the US west coast + swathes of Canada, with Greenland, Iceland + Svalbard showing dramatic drying trends, + the Iranian government contemplating evacuating Tehran due to water shortage. 6/6 share.google/0eyMBdzbmWkA...

Mensen, de tweede bundel gaat dan nu toch echt gebeuren. Of nou ja, "nu": ergens in mei 2026 bij het mooie en geduldige @van-oorschot.bsky.social. Er moet nog veel gebeuren, maar de schitterende cover is er al (beeld wederom: Anneke de Soete; /1 #poezie #boeken #toenikjekwijtraakte #dichtbundels

The only library in London with a section on divination.

At the University of Milan, lecture series on the “Annales school”, from November 2025 to March 2026, with great speakers such as Müller, Rubin, Calafat, Burke and Abulafia! @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @historysorbonne.bsky.social

Under 35?! Find yourself writing about coins? Have an longish unpublished piece you'd like to see get some attention?! Perhaps you have student who recently submitted a kickass numismatic thesis you want to promote?

Quarante ans après la mort de Fernand Braudel, le 27 novembre 1985, sa "Méditerranée" reste un classique incontournable. Guillaume Calafat revient sur ce livre d'histoire qui résiste si bien au temps. www.lhistoire.fr/lire-et-reli...

0.2% growth in productivity over five years from "AI". That's your revolution, lads, really? The sort of blip that could be reversed by a particularly rainy bank holiday.

SAH is seeking a volunteer Associate Editor for the SAHARA project, the Society’s digital archive of images of the global built environment. Apply by December 1: sah.org/2025/10/20/c...

I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.

Renaissance painting sells for half a million pounds in Banbury