Get in the sea!

Uninterested in leading a pile-on but no, AI does not “have access” to everything ever published. Not archival material, obviously, but not secondary material either. Nor across times nor languages. AI is not human knowledge personified. It’s exactly not that, in fact. It’s not even a search engine.

Excited to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" (which I am co-editing w/Scott Berthelette) Feel free to reach out via DM/email if you have any questions CFP here: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

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Was watching Boots Riley's I Love Boosters and realized it's a practical instance of Deleuze and Guattari's "schizoanalysis." The thesis of the film seems to be that a radical "leap" into the territory of abject others - "criminal" clothing thieves, Chinese sweatshop workers - is necessary

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"This is what it looks like when workers hold the line – it sends a message to every media company in the country that AI cannot be used to circumvent union contracts or undermine journalistic integrity." Academics please take note!

She made history for decades. Now she has a degree in it. Congratulations to Billie Jean King on earning her BA in history from from Cal State LA, 65 years after first enrolling.

Fun fact: the founder of the French radical right league Croix de Feu, Maurice d'Hartoy, lived in the Dominican Republic for decades and served as minister plenipotentiary to the United Nations for Rafael "el Jefe" "blood in the streets" Trujillo

Rabbit hole of the day for French history-sky. Was every champagne family Pétainist/part of the radical right? I was aware of Taittinger, but so far I've added members of the Heidsieck family and realized that Philippe Henriot was from a champagne family. I wonder what the cigar magnates were up to!

As gen AI enters the academic workplace, faculty and staff are worried about protecting their intellectual property, being assessed by AI tools, and being replaced. Here’s how that’s showing up in collective bargaining negotiations across the country. #academicsky www.chronicle.com/article/unio...

It’s publication day!

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

My book launch for From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi German 1945-1955 (LSU Press, 2026) with @lsupress.bsky.social is now available on Youtube! Check it out and share it with anyone you think might be interested. #skystorians More: lsupress.org/978080718678...

Look what came in the mail this week, @drewflanaganphd.bsky.social . Can't wait to crack it open!

Congratulations to faculty in the Penn State system! There is power in a union - they are the strongest tool we have as faculty and workers to resist repression by both state and corporate interests.

Yes! www.historians.org/news/federal...

History majors have lower unemployment than computer science majors. Folks with humanities graduate degrees are more sought after by corporate recruiters than those with MBAs. Study history! Get a job!

How *strong* or salient should European identity be for Europeans? Is Europe more like a homeland/nation ("tight" identification)? Or a civilization, united by common culture, history, and religion (looser)? Or just an alliance based on shared economic and perhaps strategic interests (loose)?

We have seven virtual book launches coming up this May! (1/2) May 6: "Karen Blixen’s Search for Self" https://bit.ly/4en4PQN May 7: "From Occupation to Integration" https://bit.ly/4w2JoLd May 13: "Eugène and Eulalie" https://bit.ly/4djwssY May 14: "Offshore Oildom" https://bit.ly/4tdq4IG

Breaking: Intelligence operatives taught to do intelligence stuff, but not American-ly.

Join me and @lsupress.bsky.social for a virtual book launch event tomorrow, May 7, from 3-4pm EST. You'll have a chance to ask all your burning questions about From Occupation to Integration, including but not limited to "what?" and "how dare you?" #skystorians RSVP here: bit.ly/4vUq9DA

My paper on this panel will struggle to achieve the same heights of titlecraft

Happy "Hitler Killed Himself in a Bunker Day" to those who celebrate.

Advertising 2 more positions (doc/postdoc) as part of BLOCKADE. PhD cand to examine the heroization of blockade runners in the era of the world wars; postdoc to explore the transatlantic dimension of blockades. 4 year positions in beautiful Freiburg. Please SHARE! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

For anybody looking for a new (old) conspiracy, may I intoduce you to the supposed erasure of "Tataria" by the Soviet Union. Old Western European maps reflected a general lack of knowledge about what lay to the East of Europe, especially east of Moscow and then the Urals

Really enjoyed sitting down with Dr. Miranda Melcher from the New Books Network podcast to discuss my book From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1955 (LSU Press, 2026). @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #skystorians open.spotify.com/episode/2K5Y...

UPDATE: It's officially published as of today! If you're interested, I'm happy to answer questions and to speak to undergraduate and graduate courses as desired. lsupress.org/978080718678... #skystorians

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These are crucial questions. I see civilizational thinking as instrumental, a flexible ethnocultural and political discourse. It has, as far as I can see, two main axes: 1) the idea of the world being made up of discrete civilizations and 2) ideas about the process by which peoples become civilized

e.e. cummings said it best: your slightest look easily will unclose [the strait of Hormuz] though i have closed [it] as fingers, you open always petal by petal [the strait] as Spring opens (touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives." www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...

Authoritarianism 101. I am so happy to participate of this key educational initiative by the American Historical Association @historians.org ! www.historians.org/news-publica...

#YomHaShoah Among 1,3 million people deported to the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, 1,1 million were Jews (1 million of them were murdered). See their countries of origin. Learn more about Jewish prisoners & victims of Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en

Peter Schöttler - Marc Bloch, une biographie intellectuelle À paraître en mai chez Gallimard

Congratulations to the new PM of Hungary, Péter Magyar - truly the Pierre (Mendès)-France of his country.

With 60% of the vote in, the Hungarian opposition is projected to win 135 seats in parliament--which would give it a supermajority to overturn Orban's changes to the constitution. Incredible result for the Hungarian people.

In Senegal, Lamine Gueye is affiliated with this law.

If you can't make one of my upcoming in-person book launches (and even if you can!) join me on May 7 at 3-4pm EST for a virtual book launch event through LSU Press. More info at the link below: www.facebook.com/share/1RwKRQ...

By normal standards most academic work gets overlooked, but my least-read piece seems to be this book chapter from 2019... it's in German, a book chapter, and on a characteristically niche subject, but I enjoyed the theory side of it a lot and maybe you will too! www.academia.edu/42332023/Tu_...

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

See, I told you it's real

Trump: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will." Pop quiz guys: what do you call acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group?

It's real! @lsupress.bsky.social #skystorians lsupress.org/978080718678...

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