"Few German socialists would ever meet a member of the Herero or Nama peoples, but they spoke out in defense of their human rights and their right to rebel."

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Nice to have had 'A Pacific Power' positively reviewed in AHR by Holger Droessler, who knows a thing or two about the history of imperialism in the Pacific. academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

Mate, that four corners episode could have gone for 6 hours and still not laid it all out how bad things are. Australian universities are cooked and VCs are holding the tongs.

If we don't do AUKUS we will get as many subs from the Yanks and UK as we would with AUKUS.

Fabulous new special issue on business and labour in the German colonial empire. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/c...

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Teaching Minute 1: Today I want to talk about the Russo-Turkish war, San Stefano and the Congress of Berlin. Minute 47: Baudrillard, the desert of the real, the Orientalist simulacrum...

A Belgian aristocrat who served as diplomat and European commissioner will have to face trial regarding his possible involvement in the murder of Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese prime minister and independence leader assassinated in 1961. www.ft.com/content/16c5...

Reminder to avoid the Thiel distraction. A point we’ve been hitting on tour is the temptation to apply intellectual history methods to a regime of accumulation (digital capitalism) is misguided. You won’t understand the Tech Right by reading books (they don’t read). Look at how they run their firms.

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

"University bosses, after all, are part of the problem. I don’t think much will change while they are the only ones in charge." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

HDRs and ECRs! Remember that applications are currently open for a stack of grants and bursaries designed to help get you to our annual conference in July! Check them out here: theaha.org.au/awards-and-p...

50 years into the 24,000 years needed. Not optimal.

The long term consequences of nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands.

RIP Jürgen Habermas and, in a larger sense, the last vestiges of the Bonn Republic.

"Some of the jobs for which they had long been accepting large salaries were not actually indispensable to the efficient functioning of their institutions." insidestory.org.au/the-preserva...

Dekolonial Erinnern im MARKK Hamburg: Großartige (Kinder)Ausstellung und Katalog „Pippis Papa“ über deutschen Kolonialismus im Pazifik & problematische Sprache in Kinderbüchern. @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social @he-mel.bsky.social @giga-hamburg.de @laenderkultur.bsky.social

This is the reality of what AI companies want for the future: where EVERYONE is unable to function without relying on them for "intelligence as a utility." In order for them to sell this to us, they need to convince us our brains are never creative, interesting, able enough.

everyone is going to be assigned Deleuze and Guattari readings until we figure out what is going on

New arrival!

Extended interview on the current war in hte Middle East www.lindro.eu/2026/03/10/i...

Von 1915 bis 1917 gab es eine persische Gegenregierung unter Reza Qoli Khan Nezam al-Saltaneh in Kermanschah. Die #Mittelmächte unterstützen diese Regierung und die Deutschen brachten für diese die so genannten Niedermayer-Banknoten in den Umlauf. #ErsterWeltkrieg #Persien #DeutschesKaiserreich

So many people in important positions around the world are still operating as if we are in an era of neoliberal guard rails where "don't mess with the money and crash the global economy" is a self-evident hard limit to policy decisions by the powerful.

Attacks leave dead vs killed

Rabobank on the unfolding worst case scenario:

@historycouncilsa.bsky.social hosted one of these events and it was a roaring success, putting some local writers in the conversation. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Memories of German colonialism in Togo: Regierung beschließt Restitutionskomitee. Deutschland ist nicht vorbereitet auf wachsenden Druck aus früheren Kolonien. @diplo.de @geronafrica.bsky.social @laenderkultur.bsky.social @kulturspk.bsky.social 👉 dekolonial-erinnern.de/togo-beschli...

RIP Baudrillard you would've loved this episode of imperial decline

Should it be done? No. But can it be done? Also no. theconversation.com/does-regime-...

Should it be done? No. But can it be done? Also no. theconversation.com/does-regime-...

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

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Albanese flaccidly supports a war he wasn’t consulted on, had no congressional approval, has no clear strategic objective and makes the world a less safe place. So, so lame.

Extremely normal technology.

🚨 #DiscoveryProjects EOI #DPEI27 announcement: ❗️Outcomes for Expressions of Interest should now be available in your RMS account ▶️ rms.arc.gov.xn--au-lmy ARC should also email Lead CIs with their outcomes (may take a while & be staggered). Full apps open 2 Mar, due 22 Apr.

"Zum andern mahl auffgelegt / vnd alle Errata im ersten Druck / deren vberaus viel waren / vffs allerfleißigst verbessert." (1629) Ein Lektorat lohnt sich immer.

"South Australia’s algal bloom has spread north, turning waters a sickly brownish-green colour and suffocating southern sand octopus, rays and other marine life. There are fears it could spread into the Spencer Gulf towards the annual aggregation of giant cuttlefish." www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Come work with us! jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

Get those abstracts in -- today's the last day you can submit your abstract for the 2026 AHA Conference! theaha.org.au/aha-conferen...

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (1983)

Memories of German colonialism in Tanzania: On podcast Decolonial Memories, Sirili Molelia & son Tony talk about efforts to get ancestors back, murdered 1900 by German colonial troops. President Ackermann @kulturspk.bsky.social signed transfer of custodianship. podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/d...

"Adelaide gets its bit of AUKUS" Allan Behm " The sooner a measure of reality brings the AUKUS dream down to earth, the sooner Australia can return to a disciplined and realistic approach to defence strategy" thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Spent a bit of time today becoming acquainted with ex-PM George Reid, who after finishing Australian politics then whizzed over to the UK and was elected to the House of Commons. No Section 44 problems back in those days.

Looking forward to this event. If you're in Adelaide, come along! events.humanitix.com/whats-the-st...

ECRs and HDRs! Applications for a whole suite of prizes (that celebrate your work and help you get to our annual conference) are now open! Check out the website to see which prizes you might be eligible for! theaha.org.au/awards-and-p...

me in any conversation about anything lately:

Südaustralien: Bald 100% regenerative Energien Und was haben die nun von diesem ideologischen Irrweg? 30% billigeren Strom. Manchmal sogar kostenlos Und wie füllen die Dunkel-Flauten? Bestimmt mit Gas oder Kernfusion denkt der Durchschnitts-Friedrich Nein. Mit ordinären Akkus #Klimakatastrophe