For years, but especially in the last few months, I have been trying hard to imagine what it will feel like seeing Orban decisively defeated. I just couldn't. And yet here we are: it is truly and well over. I have more reservations about Peter Magyar than I could say in 300 characters or a thread...

What a quote: “at the beginning of the war, everybody was trained in tactical medicine. Now we realise we should have been trained in drones, because when you know drones, you need so much less tactical medicine.” Fantastic episode (in English!) podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/l...

Chercheurs en shset en sciences dures devraient pouvoir s'organiser ensemble pour s'opposer à l'extension incontrôlée des pouvoirs des fsd, et pour réaffirmer la responsabilité et l'autonomie des chercheurs.

#ESR Merci @nholzschuch.bsky.social pour ce point instructif www.sgen-cfdt.fr/actu/zones-a...

Ok, Lažljiv Izgubljenović as author is genius, thanks for the laugh !

🚨 Dans le dernier numéro des #Annales 'Les sources nativement numériques. Enjeux de #documentation et de #redocumentarisation' par @valeriesch.bsky.social , Frédéric Clavert et @ccarolinemuller.bsky.social Un article à lire en #openaccess 👇 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

Slezkine & cie focusing on Ukrainian Russian speakers need to account for one fact: why has the overwhelming majority of Ru-speaking Ukr refugees since 2014 chosen "the West" (in and out of Ukriane) over Russia?

L'article de Marc André est à lire dans le dernier numéro des #Annales 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This rules

A new review of mine, in the New York Review of Books. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

C'est en ligne et le nouveau site est super réussi ! Merci pour votre confiance @aphg.bsky.social @jalazard.bsky.social Vous pouvez mettre un signet sur www.aphg.fr/lhistoire-pa... (et n'hésitez pas à participer)

EHRI #CallForPapers | Transnational Workshop of @ehri-cz.bsky.social and EHRI-AT: Rethinking Holocaust History through Geospatial Approaches 18-19 May 2026 | Venue: Prague, Czech Republic | Deadline for applications: 15 March 2026, submissions in English only. www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-call-fo...

Let me clarify this with a small thought experiment. Let's imagine we invent glasses that can automatically and discreetly read into your ear anything written to see. They can decipher hard to read script. They can produce broadly accurate summaries with a quick scan, as a good reader can.

Je confirme On est tous et toutes à bout Personnel educatif, administratif On en peut plus www.huffingtonpost.fr/france/artic...

"apprendre à dire non" est un conseil fréquent notamment aux jeunes femmes. J'ai mis longtemps à comprendre que ça ne signifie pas juste dire non aux tâches inutiles ou ingrates, mais qu'il fallait savoir dire non à des choses passionnantes qu'on n'a pas le temps de faire malgré l'envie.

Many professors, yes, even in the humanities, use IA. IT has useful uses where it can meaningfully help a highly trained professionnal in some tasks. But it threatens the very possibility of training the next generation to the level where there can benefit from IA use.

It's 500 years since the first text printed in Yiddish, and one of our amazing grad students is hosting a symposium this October to mark the date: please forward the CFP to Yiddishists, book historians, typography nerds, and anyone you think might be up for this! medieval.ox.ac.uk/500-years-of...

The @dhi-paris.fr and Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah have launched a new one-year research fellowship on the history of the Holocaust in France/Western Europe! Deadline for this first round of applications: April 1. More details below 👇👇👇 www.dhi-paris.fr/fileadmin/us...

CfP - Experiencing Borders. The Long 1940's and their legacies in (Eastern) Europe International conference, Lviv, Ukraine Sep. 16-18, 2026 @ehess.fr with Center for urban history in Lviv, Charles University, Lviv office of the @maxweberstiftung.de Apply by April 20, 2026!

Putin proposes to take over the "temporary administration of Ukraine" under "UN supervision" in order to "enable democratic elections". This is a remarkable repetition of the promises Stalin made in 1945 with respect to Poland, which led to democratic politicians ending up dead, in prison or in

in another entirely illegal move, the nihilistic totalitarianism of the Georgian Dream continues its rampage, here against #Georgia's most successful research university. Yes, it is a regime, and yes, this is illegal and totally illegitimate. open.substack.com/pub/ganatleb...

The journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History is on Bluesky now. Follow here: @kritikajournal.bsky.social #academicsky #skystorians

Outside of Global North scholars working in European archives nobody has easy access to archives. I was lucky as an Indian national to experience the extraordinary democratization and transparency of Brazilian archives after the dictatorship. It gave me a horizon of hope not a standard.

Nouvel épisode en ligne: les restitutions artistiques de 1815, avec Bénédicte Savoy. Un moment passionnant de fin d'empire, où le Louvre doit rendre des milliers d’œuvres issues des conquêtes françaises, préfigurant les débats actuels sur l'art africain notamment. parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/20...

Happy that my review essay on Russian-Ottoman history in the Annales has been published in English - reviewing amazing books by @will-smiley.bsky.social @vhtroyansky.bsky.social and @lalehjoon.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

[#Infuse] Mars Imperium portail web en libre accès dédié à l’histoire impériale et post-coloniale de Marseille. Il est le fruit d’un projet collectif rassemblant des laboratoires de recherche d’Aix Marseille Université, des institutions culturelles et des partenaires socio-culturels. ⤵️

In the new @dissentmag.bsky.social issue, out today, @yguichaoua.bsky.social and I diagnose the crisis of conflict studies in a piece that is part intellectual history, part personal experience. What was conflict studies for? And what can its travails tell us about how wars have changed?

Nice bit of digital humanities here - using AI to transcribe more than 32,000 manuscripts in the space of a few months. But with two years of preparation in training the model and creating standards for automating manuscript transcription www.inria.fr/en/comma-med...

📚 #OutNow In the summer of 1940, many Romanian Jews fled to the USSR to escape persecution and protest antisemitism. In this book chapter, Svetlana Suveica (IOS) examines this largely overlooked migration & the fate of the refugees. Published by Bloomsbury Academic. ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge...

For decades, Canadians eagerly rushed onto US tech platforms and services. But now the drawbacks of that dependence are on full display. For @policyalternatives.ca, I explain the economic and political consequences of a US-dominated internet — and why digital sovereignty is imperative.

The University of Basel has just advertised three positions in my project on treason, disloyalty, and the defense of democracy in interwar Czechoslovakia. If you know any students and junior scholars interested in working on interwar Czechoslovakia, please encourage them to apply!

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Moscou déclenche une spoliation massive des Ukrainiens dans les zones occupées

The way to actual tech sovereignty from the US? Extremely interesting talk by Cory Doctorow. pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...

🚨 Le dernier numéro des #Annales est disponible sur @universitypress.cambridge.org Au programme : #évergétisme #migrations #mercenaires #valeur #géographie Avec plusieurs articles en #openaccess Bonne lecture ! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So Putin is clearly laying out that he wants to "reintegrate" Ukraine in Russia. Get a puppet government, buy it off with cheap gas, neutralize its military, get rid of the "fascists" aka supporters of Ukrainian independence, reclaim RU cultural and economic hegemony. Peace through conquest.

J'ai essentiellement travaillé dans les archives de l'empire russe et de l'URSS. Leurs transformations en archives nationales depuis les indépendances reflètent la diversité des trajectoires politiques et économiques des pays concernés.

War doesn’t just destroy buildings—it erases places where children learn, play, and grow. Bellingcat and journalists from @afp.com bureaus in Paris and Kyiv take a look at the lost spaces of youth in Ukraine. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

Félicitations à Louison Bernard, lauréate du prix franco-allemand d'histoire attribué aux mémoires de Master pour son travail : « ‹ À l’est, le silence. À l’ouest, l’oubli. › Les déportations de civil·es allemand·es vers l’URSS après la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1945-1956) ».

Russia promises not to attack any EU country. It also claims that it never attacked Ukraine. It claims that it never attacked anyone, only ever defended itself. Warsaw and Vladivostok just happened to become parts of a Russian empire defending itself.

📣 Latest content in English 'Two Protestant Assemblies in #Tianjin: In Search of Markers of Certainty' by Isabelle Thireau (@ehess.fr) 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

Bulle de l'IA : 70 % du cloud est contrôlé par trois entreprises américaines Le gouvernement américain et le secteur privé en sont profondément conscients. C’est un avantage géopolitique extraordinaire.

Evaluating grant proposals in the AI age has turned a tedious service task into a truly soul sucking experience. Grant givers should require proposals to focus on scientific substance with little formal guidance and let someone else deal with the BS. The system was always broken, now it's dead.

AI misrepresents news 45% of the time. Hasn't stopped every major search provider enthusiastically adopting it www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

A week before the invasion, my friend asked me: - I don't believe there will be an invasion, but I have a question: maybe that's because I have my own house, car, and business, and I can't believe it could all end in one day? You don't have any of this - how do you assess the situation?". 1/9

A very good article on Russian colonialism. newlinesmag.com/essays/the-h...

Aujourd'hui dans le podcast, la Fabrique des Annales n°4, l'émission qui accompagne les numéros de la revue (79/4) et propose aussi une visite en "coulisses" et en "archives". Un sommaire pointu, dépaysant et (AMHA) passionnant. Bonne écoute et bonne semaine ! parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/20...

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5 #envhist #energysky

Dear colleagues, positions at CNRS (and INRIA) will (in all probability) be announced this winter. By then it will however be too late to properly prepare an application. Recent PhDs, postdocs etc interested in such positions should get right now in contact with teams who would like to recruit them.