Although buried in the news cycle, this may be one of the most significant biological discoveries of our lifetimes. If the radical interpretation of the authors holds... I truly am speechless on this one. Multispecies superorganisms, anyone? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really enjoyed sitting down with The Civil War Monitor’s new podcast to discuss some surprising ways the war connected with other contemporaneous conflicts as well as fielding several questions about 19C soldiering from the magazine’s subscribers! www.civilwarmonitor.com/podcast/epis...

Worth paying attention to, but it’s vital to emphasize that, as with all technology, it’s not the technology itself that poses problems: it’s how we use it. AI is a tool; just like the internet; just like a hammer. Use it as a tool. With purpose and intent, without letting it use you instead.

#blueLZ #BayernEdu

Iraqis rn.

Unfortunately I already had to leave (you probably saw me given how close the planes are flying over the #CEI-Iscte institute but my last service for #MHC2025 in Lisbon is telling you where a terrific closing panel will take place tonight: 👉C2 02👈

Very excited to be here in Lisbon at the Military History Consortium annual conference for a second year! I’ll be giving my talk on military encyclopedism in the Deutscher Bund on Friday afternoon.

If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend wandering aimlessly through southern Europe with your incredible wife who doubles as your best friend. 🇫🇷❤️

This weekend I found that the Great War isn’t really so far away.

Enjoyed Eamonn’s presentation on this fascinating research here at #SMH2025 and it’s well worth your time!

We proudly present the “Actually we’re married“ badge #SMH2025

This is cool on so many levels!

I have arrived in deep-fried Rebeldom for #SMH2025. First impressions are that the Gulf of America looks disappointingly similar to the Gulf of Mexico.

And for yet another year our #SMH2025 conference posts will compete in social media search results with the legions merely shaking their heads at current events.

No change.

Apropos of nothing at all, I just want to observe that the P-47 was officially redesigned the F-47 in 1947. It remained in service until 1953. So what we are really talking about is an F-47 II.

Delighted to share that I have signed with Yale University Press for my fourth book. The working title is 'Forging Armageddon: The British Army and the Global War for Empire, 1835-1914'. I'm investigating the role of knowledge networks in British Army development up to the First World War.

My amazing wife is not named in this excellent essay, but I’m too proud of her not to acknowledge the major success that this testimonial represents. The tireless work she puts in each and every day on every single manuscript deserves every bit of the praise given here. And it’s a great book, too!

I don’t know how it possibly could have been fifteen years since I last saw you boys, but I’ve missed you every day since. Rest well, brothers.

If you don’t read this fine piece of scholarship, you are most definitely a dirty leg.

Want. Need.

Having now spent my first Silvester in Berlin, I’m no longer certain how much of the still visible battle damage on the Reichstag is from 1945 and how much is just from eighty New Years Eves.

Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

A happy new year to all! For those who enjoy looking back, I recommend thumbing through Kenneth Guthrie's 1919 novel, A Romance of Two Centuries: A Tale of the Year 2025, for a glimpse of how our predecessors assumed we would be living today. You can read it free here: archive.org/details/roma...

I think, as many do without any actual knowledge on education or children's development, that there should be a mandatory project for all children around ages 8-10 called something like "Plinython" where they have to make an encyclopedia. describing the world as they know it.

Mountweazels were fictitious articles intentionally printed by encyclopedias in an effort to later reveal efforts by competitors to blanket plagiarize whole editions.

Few if any encyclopedias have escaped critique for supposed politicization. The problem isn’t that Wikipedia occasionally appears to show bias (nothing useful can avoid perspective), it’s that there are few alternatives which are anywhere near its scope while being anything but unabashedly partisan.

Launched a second thematic account for any of you interested: bsky.app/profile/ency.... It will focus on a particular historical passion of mine: the evolution of the encyclopedia. A blog will follow, but I’m using this as a place to share my thoughts and relevant posts from across Bsky for now.

As generated texts become ever central to our daily life, histories of this technology’s evolution will naturally become more embedded within our social and cultural history. I’m looking forward to digging into this work.

Very pleased to learn that my proposal has been accepted for inclusion at the 2025 SMH in Mobile! My talk, "Von Aachen bis Zündnadelgewehr: Military Encyclopedism in the Deutscher Bund, 1815-1871" is very much a work in progress, but I plan to post updates here as the research comes together.

Excited to announce that my new book, Siren Songs, is now available for free download in ebook format through Army University Press. The work highlights the dangers of self-delusion infecting martial thought following major military reversals. www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/Re...

I am moved by the number of folks who have seen fit to follow me here on this new platform despite my inactivity thus far. I’ll do my best to live up to any expectations! Currently, I’m envisioning this as a potential home for some of my less martial thinking. The world has enough war at present.